HERNING (Denmark) REVIEW: Gaffa
Filed Under () by broddybounce on Monday, February 16, 2015
Posted at : Monday, February 16, 2015
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| credit: Morten Rygaard / Gaffa |
by Espen Strunk
via Google Translate
A kind of magic: Impressive revival of the classic Queen catalog
At the risk of wear holes in an already polished a little cliche, one can hardly ignore the fact that tonight's session belongs to the year's most anticipated rock concerts here at home. 24 years after we lost the amazing frontman Freddie Mercury to AIDS comes (the remains of) Queen hesitate to visit: There is a full house in Herning tonight.
And judging by the expectant atmosphere among the more than 15,000
attendance suffered for eight, it does not rise to the great concern
that it is a 33-year-old former "American Idol" Participate as if some
should try to lift the heavy legacy from Mercury.
At 20:02 the lights are dimmed and a nesting wall of sound begins to
rise behind a giant white stage curtain adorned Queens familiar band
emblem. At 20:09 you can hear an electric guitar being struck behind the curtain.
Four minutes later begins a smårastløst audience to applaud the
familiar rhythm to the 1977 classic "We Will Rock You" in rhythmic
impatience. At 20:18 shoots a column of smoke rising from the advanced mini scene at the end of a long ramp out in the crowd. And then it all starts.
Enthusiastic showman
"One Vision" was replaced by "Stone Cold Crazy" opens the party and no,
the musical-trained Lambert is not a Mercury: He is a technically
skilled singer, even with appropriate flamboyant homosexual and
appearance. An enthusiastic showman, as well.
But Mercury's special blend of thinly veiled vulnerability and rocking
brawn - the sheep tonight we are only in the few moving passages where
video clips with Mercury on the big screen is incorporated into the
performance.
For a show it - and a highly entertaining and engaging one of its kind, immediately added.
For when the introductory paragraph is in place, you have to actually
give the English reviewers right: Lambert not only shoulder the task -
he adds just the new millennium Queen the vitaminindsprøjning(?) and the
young blood of the former Free & Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers
After all, did not succeed in his time as Queen vocalist.
Costume shifts are countless underway;
from leather jacket with gold rivets of tight red checkered pants in
long leather boots to leopardplattet suit and royal crown - and "Killer
Queen" slouches Lambert is affectionately on a divan on the protruding
podium, while May performing.
For we lack Mercury, look and sound Brian May in return just like themselves. The characteristic curly toupee was white, but his face strangely unchanged.
And more importantly: He mastery still the electric guitar with the
same pompous authority, as in the band's heyday three or four decades
ago.
A kind of magic
We get a long concert - almost two and a half hours - and the band is only hotter and hotter as it progresses. "I Want to Break Free" includes Mays first regular royal solo;
Since follows several more in among others "A Kind of Magic," the
drummer Roger Taylor for a while - and a bit fragile - takes the vocal
lead.
Not to speak of in the long instrumental course along the way, not
least the two remaining members of the original group is allowed to
unfold extensively on their instruments.
So facing Lambert back, and "Tie Your Mother Down" is allowed to usher
concert last quarter, where quite heavy artillery pulled forward in the
form of "Radio Gaga," "Bohemian Rhapsody" and finally the encore "We
Will Rock You" and " We Are The Champions, "while gold confetti raining
down from the ceiling, and the enthusiasm in the hall will never end.
It is now 38 years ago, Queen promised that they would rock us in the primal effective song of the same name. Tonight in Herning fulfilled the incredibly lifted once more - and it is probably also a kind of magic, in a sense.
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3 comments:
Yes, magic each time he takes the stage.
A great review & an awesome concert!!!
By each passing concert (and luckily there have been great livestreams of so many of them - thanking all involved from the bottom of my heart!) I value their setlist more and more... AND I have NO sympathy for those people (fans or journalists/writers of any kind) who in any way put down or don't get the importance of the more acoustic phase of the show, Rogers singing (LOVE his voice, he sounds like he should, all those decades ofdoing the rock 'n roll), ,Brian's solo (I eagerly wait for it, gives me a chance to float through so many feelings, emotions this band, their music and Brian guitar, his unique unbelievable style of playing has given me throughout these years...) These guys deserve all our respects and those who can't appreciate these parts of the concert should just shut about it - go have a drink or something!
Honestly I don't understand how Brian makes it night after night, he's there the whole time, playing and mostly standing, all the running/walking around and all the tempo and all those solos....Have been his fan from the get go and I wish I could hug him one day! (not very likely, lol!)
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